Yuan Yuan1, Bo Yu2, Chaofang Yue3, Chee Guan Koh2, Andrew Morss4, Gregory Lafyatis5, Michael Paulaitis6, and L. James Lee3. (1) Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center for Affordable Nanoengineering of Polymeric Biomedical Devices, The Ohio State University, 140 WEST 19TH AVE, Columbus, OH 43210, (2) Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The Ohio State University, 140 West 19th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, (3) Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The Ohio State University, 125A Koffolt Laboratories, 140 west 19th Ave., Columbus, OH 43210, (4) Physics, The Ohio State University, 140 WEST 19TH AVE, Columbus, OH 43210, (5) Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, (6) Department of Chemical Engineering, The Ohio State University, 125 Koffolt Labs, 140, West 19th Ave, Columbus, OH 43210
Due to the sequence-specific hybridization and highly effective inhibiting translation of specific mRNA, oligonucleotides (ONs) such as antisense ODN and siRNA-based therapy has made considerable development and represented a new era of cancer therapy in the past several years. Unmodified ONs are vulnerable to exo- and endonucleases and are rapidly degraded in vivo. To address these drawbacks, polymeric and liposomal nanoparticles have been used as carriers to deliver ONs to down-regulate targeted mRNAs. Our group has successfully synthesized ON-containing immunolipopolyplex nanoparticles (ILPs) for the therapy of leukemia, which is the most common adult leukemia in the world. To further improve the selectivity and specificity to target tumor cells and alleviate the side effects, multiantibody-conjugated ILPs were developed for leukemia therapy through a combinatorial design. A microfluidics-based antibody microarray with high throughput was used to study the combinatorial effects of antibodies for specific cell binding. Optical tweezer was applied to quantify the dynamic interactions and binding force of cell surface receptors and antibodies. The synergistic/additive cell internalization and bcl-2 down-regulation of ILPs targeted by selected antibody combination at different molar ratios were investigated by confocal microscopy, flow cytometry and Western blotting. Good agreement was observed between the microarray and ILPs results for both cell lines and patient cells.